Epiphany proclamation 2013

After lying fallow for months, it’s time for 7WD to come back to life. And what better way to do that than this year’s Epiphany Proclamation. Look for some more blog posts in the coming days. It’s time.

ear friends in Christ, the glory of the Lord has shone upon us, and shall ever be manifest among us, until the day of his return. Through the rhythms of times and seasons let us celebrate the mysteries of salvation. Let us recall the year’s culmination, the Easter Triduum of the Lord: his last supper, his crucifixion, his burial, and his rising celebrated between the evening of the twenty-eighth day of March and the evening of the thirtieth day of March.

Each Easter – as on each Sunday – the Holy Church makes present the great and saving deed by which Christ has for ever conquered sin and death. From Easter are reckoned all the days we keep holy. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, will occur on the thirteenth day of February. The Ascension of the Lord will be commemorated on the ninth day of May. Pentecost, the joyful conclusion of the season of Easter, will be celebrated on the nineteenth day of May. And, this year the First Sunday of Advent will be on the first day of December.

Likewise the pilgrim Church proclaims the passover of Christ in the feasts of the holy Mother of God, in the feasts of the Apostles and Saints, and in the commemoration of the faithful departed.

To Jesus Christ, who was, who is, and who is to come, Lord of time and history, be endless praise, for ever and ever. Amen.